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The only acceptable response is this: #1 WE were responsible, and we don't like you advertising it [not true, and no names were mentioned] or #2 We really don't like that his happened, so we'll crush all mentions of it...

Given your encounter with the Old Ones, how would you design a Hive Mind? I'd start with being able to set up memes a year in advance then trigger them for maximal effectiveness. Bleh, any operative can do that crap...

And, sigh. An answer that 99% of Host's readers will scoff at (and, as such, this is anti-poetry): Born out of the Touch of vagina of Stone, Ears open to the old ones, Eyes focused on the decaying seagull, Taste...

I've no idea. Please understand the amount of alcohol (which is a poison to all, but especially us) being used here. It's not fun and it's also far above what your bodies could take. There's a reason it's so common...

Well, (we're almost past 400, no-one is still reading), mine was personally inflicted by a rather petty little 'Deity' [self-proclaimed] / wanker / 'Higher-Order-Power' who inflicted it purely out of spite (he lost... a lot of arguments and his Ego...

It's also a very good case of when STEM graduates need to step back and learn some wisdom. Then stop denouncing art, philosophy or religion and start growing. Oh, and then go back and know, not think, what existence is....

I'm not sure I'm seeing the distinction you're making here between interpersonal interactions and thought processes. CBT is driven by the self, not via the Other (and is common enough for bipolar and other DSM V defined conditions, admittedly with...

I smell dualism. Think of it in terms of plants and what was realized very recently regarding symbiotic relationships with mycorrhizal fungi: the fungi act as vectors for transmitting chemical warnings to plants who reciprocate properly - mostly regarding insect...

Deleted a long comment outlining the current State of the Art (from Roko's to Jesus Incidents to the whole Bostrom list and a point that most if not all are Pascal Wagers which are like super-boring ethically speaking). #1 Hive...

Serious answer: There's multiple reasons for a medical diagnosis for tinnitus that involves environment, damaging levels of DBs and so forth. Recent study showed that 85% of NY young adults were listening to their head-phones at a level that produces...

Dude who doesn't understand Science or the premise. And yes, ffs. DUDE. THE FAILURE STATE IS DEATH OF YOUR SPECIES. ~ Like, seriously. If you hit 4oC, you're looking at a 4 billion kill zone. You hit 6oC, you're looking...

Our present society simply cannot be trusted with an End It All Button. You're kinda missing Reality here. Global Thermo-Nuclear War has been a set standard for 70+ years now. Even GW #2 didn't nuke the Middle East. What you're...

My, my, my. I do believe ya'll missed the point by a mile here. If you want irony, it's a load of Single Mind Models horse-trading over potential position post Hive. If we are to be banal, the entire point...

The actual joke is a bit better than that. Linkin Parks' first hit album was Hybrid Theory, released in Oct 2000 and I was suggesting that Scott was much younger than I am. So unless Scott is roughly ~ 30...

It works better if you switch to imagining what kind of consciousnesses get treated like that. i.e. Science / Labs and dissecting octopuses (and Douglas Adams jokes if you want). The meta-joke is that it's humans in many places. The...

Oh, and, being a mature being who has had zero (0) hours without Light [that means daylight / enforced light before you go all GoT on me with the whole male "Ewww but sudden sagging breasts, I was whipping it...

Thank you for those links (although, sadly, I then had to parse the back-lash against her [looking @ you, Boston University Anthro Department - let me guess how many 'crusades' and 'conquests' you've had on field trips. This is probably...

Tying in your interest in spatial stuff & the insect subconsciousness paper, it has had a little discussion over at Conscious Entities where at least one serious professor (Space, self, and the theater of consciousness PDF A Trehub, 2005) who...

A quick question (non-naughty) to all those nay-saying rapid uptake on CISPRA etc: Do you think the PRC hasn't looked at the USA [specifically health / BMI trends & medical costs not to mention the Trump factors], Japan [ Number...

I'll be charitable and assume the joke implied relied on the "maximum ignorance" principle. In response, I'll just note that the (current) proposed solution relies upon a universal average. Meow. Still, if someone is playing Judge, I'll freely submit to...

Well, host was pointing towards a more Utopian version of SF. It's not as if KRAS isn't being worked on heavily, e.g. Overall, these results indicate that Kras DNA vaccine produces an effective antitumor response in transgenic mice, and may...

And yes: The CCCP isn't responsible. CPC / PRC. Then again, I don't carry snowballs into the Senate and expect that this would be a mature form of Republic / government for the leading Power-Bloc on the Planet. Note: Sen....

Interesting one: In May 2014, Amazon.com stopped taking pre-order sales of Hachette books, citing a breakdown in negotiations over commission and ebook pricing. According to Hachette, Amazon had also stopped discounting its books, sending prices of Hachette titles in the...

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I assume that's A Periodic Diet that Mimics Fasting Promotes Multi-System Regeneration, Enhanced Cognitive Performance, and Healthspan (July 2015). Don't have access except to the abstract; how big was the study out of curiosity? Anyway, that's science, not woo. The problem as you note is that standards of evidence for policy-making, and standards of evidence for picking problems and guiding research and further investigation, are two different beasts. For the later category (particularly picking problems), one needs to be more willing to consider that their priors are entirely, or at least interestingly, wrong. While I'm thinking of it, unrelated question;...

The only thing I know is that microdosing with LSD is somewhat fashionable for "creativity". Not sure how well it works, but it seems logical. I have only ever done megadosing :-) Some discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/comments/2grjbn/best_nootropic_for_enhancing_creativity/ Easiest thing would be for you to just try some Piracetam. It's about the safest drug I have ever encountered....

Tx! Also found this (2009), related to Piracetam and intuition, and uhm other stuff. Search engines are great! (You might find it amusing.) Odd that the creative class hasn't picked up on it (or maybe they have), like performers have picked up on beta blockers etc....

Piracetam especially is more than subtle. For me its effect is imperceptible. I only notice it when playing something like Sodoku, where my scores increased over a period of around 3 weeks by some 7%. I initially thought the online game was somehow broken because they were getting significantly easier. However, I only do a few weeks with piracetam and then take time off. During the latter period the games get harder again. Perhaps that is why many people under rate it. Some of its relatives, like aniracetam etc tend to be significantly more effective more quickly, but I prefer...

Me to aliens: Borg off. To expand a little... I want immortality but not at the cost of self. I have no evidence that a group mind is any more likely to produce happy results than a bunch of individuals. (Show me some evidence and I might, I say Might, be convinced otherwise. I have no evidence that these aliens are honest and trustworthy. Again show me evidence that they are not con-artists or the equivalent of Scientologist or other types of evangelists and I might be convinced otherwise. I never agree to major changes to my entire species on...